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rock and rolling

rock and rolling is the present participle and gerund of rock and roll.

Meaning of rock and roll

Verb

rock and roll (third-person singular simple present rocks and rolls or rock and rolls, present participle rocking and rolling or rock and rolling, simple past and past participle rocked and rolled or rock and rolled)

  1. (dated, euphemistic, slang, African-American Vernacular) To have sex.
  2. To play rock and roll music.
    Synonyms:
    rock
  3. To start, commence, begin, get moving; move along with a rocking, rolling motion.
    • Does everyone know what car they're going in? Then let's rock and roll!

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Questions about rock and rolling

What is rock and rolling the present participle and gerund of?
Rock and rolling is the present participle and gerund of rock and roll.

Words near rock and rolling in the dictionary

  1. rock along
  2. rock alum
  3. rock and roll
  4. rock and rolled
  5. rock and roller
  6. rock and rolling
  7. rock and rolls
  8. rock and rye
  9. rock armour
  10. rock armours
  11. rock art

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rock and rolling (page history and authors); rock and roll (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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